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Ravel Songs

For some reason, room was not found on these two discs for the Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, otherwise this would...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 12/2003

Stenhammar Symphony No 2, etc

This new account of the G minor Symphony has a lot going for it. Paavo Jarvi is eminently straightforward and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1999

Prokofiev Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (origversion)

Chandos certainly know how to maximize on the advantages of CD—my sympathy lies with the poor disc mastering people faced...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Bruckner Symphony No 9

With his awesome silences and towering climaxes, Bruckner is a composer whose music markedly benefits from the silent surfaces and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1983

Strauss (4) Last Songs

I hardly imagined that Testament would be able to trump its Wagnerian ace as regards the Keilberth Ring (3/06, 9/06,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2007

Mozart Piano Concerto No 27; Exsultate, jubilate; Piano Quartet, K478

High among the most treasurable events in Britten’s time at the Aldeburgh Festival were invariably those in which he himself...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1999

Bach Sacred Choral Works

Of the two Bach oratorios on this generously filled disc, it is the Easter Oratorio which is the least performed...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1994

The Sea

Faure's Au cimetiere, a calm meditation upon a village funeral, seems at first sight out of place in an anthology...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1985

Purcell Complete Odes & Welcome Songs, Vol.4

This is the fourth in the planned eight-volume set of Purcell's complete odes and welcome songs performed by The King's...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/1992

The Golden Age Restor'd

John Johnson was employed as a lutenist at the court of Queen Elizabeth 1 and the great majority of his...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1993

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